Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home. Select Essays and Poems - Página 33por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine oflove, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 páginas
...others, the most ordinary perhaps affording, as in Emerson's case, a certain melancholy. MORAL PARADOXES I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Do... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 páginas
...himself as a writer the following sentences from one of his early, most famous essays, "Self-Reliance": I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Two... | |
| Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 páginas
...Emerson also evokes the scandalous notion of "Whim." This he associates with "Spontaneity or Instinct." I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 páginas
...some verses . . . which were original" (E&L 259). One of its most nonchalantly daring passages begins, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim" (E&L 262). Here, in the very act of audaciously asserting his independence and "genius," Emerson... | |
| John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 páginas
...wants to perform surgical debridement on the illiberal argument culture around core liberal beliefs. "The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pulses and whines," said Emerson.42 Sometimes one must part a path through the guano. Without feeding... | |
| Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 páginas
...last reference to Emerson evokes another aspect of genius— single-minded dedication to one's work: "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Once again the image which Emerson evokes refers to a high level of self-esteem, in this case, the... | |
| David Burak, Roger Gilbert - 2005 - 380 páginas
...seem trivial, even annoying. Emerson goes still further in his great essay "Self-Reliance," declaring, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." At its most extreme, the logic of the Emersonian self demands a solitude so absolute it leaves no room... | |
| Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - 2006 - 334 páginas
...by inhabiting contradiction and perversity. Both will, in his word, give "edge" to one's feelings: "your goodness must have some edge to it — else...of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines" (262). Reason "never reasons" and maturity is never mature: in this book, maturity suffers a reversal... | |
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